weight gain/loss

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I was very thin all my life---100 lbs into my 20's. (at 5'5½ " ) At age

36, I became ill, had 3 surgeries in 6 months, got seriously depressed,

and lost almost 20 lbs (down to 90). I completely lost my

appetite---putting food in my mouth made me retch. After going on

Zoloft, I gained back all the weight, and ballooned up to 142---fat for

my bone structure. I have known quite a few people who gained a lot of

weight after going on anti-depressants. 6 months before being DX with

CD, I put myself on a diet. It took me 6 months of starving myself to

lose 8 lbs. I was hungry all the time. I woke up hungry, thought about

food all day, and went to bed hungry, where I dreamt about food. When I

was dx with CD and went on the gluten-free diet, I lost another 8 lbs

without even trying, in a few months. Now I'm 126, which I think is

pretty good weight for me. (Except I STILL have a pot-belly, GRRRR!)

My sister, who was dx at the same time, at first lost a lot of weight on

the diet. But she has since gained it back and more, which makes her

unhappy. I think the difference between us is that my sister was always

a carb freak, whereas I was not. I never ate a lot of bread, probably

because I knew somehow that it always made me feel uncomfortable. I

would eat pita bread instead of a roll for lunch, etc. (I think this

may also explain my ambiguous biopsy, which showed enough damage for my

Dr. to declare me a Celiac, but not " enough " for the pathologist.) I

think the reason my sis has gained weight is because she has found

gluten free substitutes for cookies, so she's back to eating a lot of

carbs. (She, unlike me, is a very picky eater and always lived on

bread, bagels, cookies, etc) I, OTOH, have a LOT of trouble digesting

the GF stuff. It lays in my stomach, it gives me gas, and I

swear---more comes out than went in. I just can't seem to tolerate it.

Funny how we're all different.

Lori

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